About Eric Norwood
Eric has been a contributor to AppAdvice.com since 2008. He is an Apple enthusiast and professional writer living in Los Angeles, CA with his yellow lab, Penny. You can read more about him at: http://www.ericnorwood.org Send tips, questions, or hate mail to: eric@appadvice.com
Eric's iOS Devices: iPhone 3G
Articles by Eric
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Blackra1n RC3 Sneak Peak
Blackra1n's next update, RC3, is less than two days away -- and now we know what it will look like. Geohot has been judging potential log...
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Blackra1n Support Line
George "geohot" Hotz, the iPhone's John Brown, is releasing his blacksn0w unlock in about 48 hours. The highly anticipated baseband unlock is for both the iPhone 3G ...
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AppNN Weekly Recap
In this week's news; the App Store reached the hundred grand mark for approved apps available for the iPhone and iPod Touch and Google gave iPhone Gmail users as muc...
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Marvel Joins iPhone Comic-book Store
Comic-book stores are in rare supply these days. Comixology is the modern day, iPhone equivalent to this endangered-shop species. Sure --...
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Navigating Google Maps
Despite recent bickering, Apple and Google seem to be pretty good pals. Google's Eric Schmidt, when asked about it, plainly said: "We love the iPhone." Questions wer...
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Disney's New App
Disney Interactive Media Group released a free, ad-supported app for the iPhone and iPod Touch today. Walt Disney Company has several products in the App Store; some...
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Apple Stores Upgrade to iPod Touch Scanners
Reports are circulating about the portable checkout devices Apple uses in its retail stores. The rumors - which are gaining credibility -...
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Sprint's Next Try at an App Store
Sprint/Nextel will open a new, more open, third-party managed App Store for its smartphones. Sprint hopes to offer a one-week turnaround ...
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Magic Mouse: Software Update
One week after unveiling their brand new multi-touch mouse, Apple has released a "Magic Mouse" software update for Snow Leopard. Earlier ...
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App Store Has 5 Minutes (To Kill Yourself)
If you can't find the humor in Adult Swim's 5 Minutes To Kill (Yourself), you probably haven't spent much time trapped in a cubicle. The ...
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iH1N1
As a swine flu survivor, I can appreciate an app like Swine Flu Center. I caught the bug in June, after interviewing someone who (unknowingly) had it in abundance. I...
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Google Navigation App?
At AppAdvice.com, we take mobile navigation apps very seriously. So do our readers. We may disagree on which one is best, but we can all at least agree on the import...
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Apple Refurbishes Bus Stop
In exchange for more than four million dollars of renovations and upgrades, the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) is allowing one of its st...
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Black-Market iPhones Made Legal in China
After a good year of negotiations with Apple, and a lengthy delay even after the announced deal, China Unicom will finally start selling ...
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Verizon Posts Big Loss
Apple and AT&T reported profitable fiscal quarters despite the U.S recession. Verizon, however, hasn't been as fortunate. Despite the recent iDon'ts and app rip-...
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Gmail Gets Bigger
Apple's touch keypad is pretty easy to use but I certainly wouldn't recommend it for lengthy prose. Nonetheless, Google has extended the compose box on the iPhone's ...
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App Store Reaches 100,000 Apps
The tremendously profitable Apple App Store has reached a major milestone, more or less, with more than 100,000 approved apps. Technicall...
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Weekly News Recap
AppAdvice.com reported a lot of exciting news last week. In case you missed any of it, here are the highlights. On the app front: EA and Harmonix released an App St...
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Blackra1n Update: RC2 Release
Just a few hours ago George 'geohot' Hotz announced an update to his OS 3.1.2 "ALL device" jailbreak, blackra1n. If you don't already kno...
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Microsoft's Apple Impression
Microsoft's most recent imitation of the Apple experience has proved to be nothing short of blatant and shameless. Most readers - at leas...
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